On the Police Logs 03.10.16

East Hampton Village

An Amagansett couple spotted a seal at Two Mile Hollow Beach last Thursday afternoon and made multiple calls to the Riverhead Foundation for Marine Research and Preservation, which advised them to stay away from the animal. When they continued calling, the foundation called village police, out of concern that they were getting too close to the animal. Police found the pair seated in their car in the parking lot. They said they were watching the seal to make sure no one else got too close to it. They were told that a team was on the way from Montauk to help the animal, and they left the beach at the request of the police.

A fight was reported on Newtown Lane, near the Suffolk County National Bank parking lot, in the early morning hours of Sunday. When police arrived they found a very intoxicated man lying down in a Pleasant Lane backyard. He told officers he had fallen down, cutting his chin and hand. Police called his roommate, who came and got him.

Sag Harbor

Geary Gubbins called police on the morning of March 1 to say that his vehicle, which he believed he had parked overnight on Main Street, was missing. Police found it in the Washington Street parking lot.

On the evening of March 1, Lorena Munoz called police to Oakland Avenue and Main Street, where her dog had gotten off the leash, run out into the street, and been hit by a gray sedan that did not stop. The extent of the dog’s injuries was not clear from the report.

Police were called to Shaw Road Friday morning to look at strange footprints in the snow on Glynne Woolfenden’s back porch. She requested that additional patrols be assigned to the area.

There was a fight reported Saturday night on Bay Street near the Bagel Buoy, but the combatants were gone when an officer arrived. Almost immediately, however, an officer reporting for his night shift saw a man screaming on Division Street, with another man restraining him from hurting a woman. The woman, police said, was the sister of the belligerent man, whom police described as extremely intoxicated. He had just been fired from a nearby business for drinking on the job, according to the report. The sister had been trying to take him home.

Police were called to Pierson High School Monday morning, where a student was dangerously drunk. An ambulance was called.

Springs

Police were called to a 19th Street residence last Thursday morning on a complaint of trespassing. Stephanie Rios said she and Miguel Jerez had found a man on the premises when they returned from running errands and were afraid he might become violent. Mr. Jerez told officers that the unwanted man had been there before on several occasions. About two weeks ago, he said, he had called the homeowner, Susanne Black of West Palm Beach, Fla., to say there was an electrical problem in the house, apparently involving the meter. When police spoke to the unidentified man, whom they described as “belligerent,” he said he was an electrician, and had been called by Ms. Black to look at the electrical problem. A trespassing affidavit was filled out, and the visitor was warned by police not to return without Mr. Jerez’s permission.

On Friday, a Springs artist, Mark Perry, reported an attempt to defraud him. Mr. Perry said that a visitor to his website, MarkPerryArt.com, had expressed interest in purchasing a landscape called “Earth Green Water Blue,” and had agreed to pay $2,400 for it after a series of emails and calls. Mr. Perry, however, was surprised to receive check for $4,550 in the mail. When he called the buyer, he was told to send back the difference, along with the landscape. Mr. Perry realized he was being scammed, and reported the incident to police.

The owner of a Springs-Fireplace Road house told police on March 1 that a woman who had recently moved out had taken with her a maple wood dining room table and four decorative masks. Phyllis Perotto told police she did not want to press charges, as long as the items were returned. Police are attempting to contact the former tenant.

Max Scott of Springs-Fireplace Road was in the hospital from mid-December to late February, and in his absence his house was burglarized. Among the stolen items: an African chair, four World War II medals, a decorative hat, two antique Mexican dolls, a Sony Z1U HD camera, antique glass bottles, a spotlight, a Winston Churchill decorative coin, and more. It appears from the police report that some things may have been taken from a storage space where they were being kept while Mr. Scott was away. The total value of the missing items was said to be about $5,000.